YREKA – A Yreka man is being held without bail in the Siskiyou County Jail following his preliminary hearing in the Superior Court on Friday when Judge William Davis ruled that he will be held to answer to multiple charges pertaining to an alleged sexual assault.

Joseph Nagi Ibrahim, 30, is charged with first-degree burglary (for allegedly entering a residence with the intention of committing a crime), assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, making criminal threats, dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, false imprisonment, three counts of spousal rape by force, three counts of forcible oral copulation, two counts of digital penetration by force, disobeying a domestic violence criminal protective order and corporal injury to a spouse.

Ibrahim also faces a series of special allegations due to the nature of the charges. The alleged multiple attacks reportedly occurred on May 8.

Ibrahim was out of custody on a Cruz Waiver and awaiting sentencing on a different criminal case involving domestic violence at the time that he allegedly attacked the victim, according to online court documents.

At the Friday hearing, Davis ruled that Ibrahim violated the terms of his Cruz Waiver, and he ordered for the defendant to be held in the jail without bail.

Davis scheduled for Ibrahim to return to court on July 9 for further proceedings.

According to reports from the Yreka Police Department, Ibrahim was arrested in May after officers responded to a report that a woman had locked herself in the restroom at a gas station in Yreka.

When officers made contact with the victim, she alleged that she had been held by force at her residence for several hours and continually sexually assaulted by Ibrahim.

Ibrahim was at the gas station when officers arrived, and he was taken into custody.